About Creeping Blepharis
Blepharis maderaspatensis is a species of suffrutescent herb in the family Acanthaceae found in seasonally dry to arid habitats from Africa over Arabia to Southeast Asia.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Blepharis maderaspatensis
- Genus
- Blepharis
- Family
- ACANTHACEAE
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Dry deciduous forests and scrub forests
- Distribution
- Tropical Africa to India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar
- Flowering & fruiting
- August-March
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Local Names
- Hindi
- दूधिया चोटी dudhiya choti, उटंगन utangan
- Tamil
- பிலிஃபாரிசு மதராசுபாடென்சிசு
- Kannada
- ಕೂಡಲಿಸೊಪ್ಪು koodali soppu
- Malayalam
- എലുമ്പൊട്ടി elumbotti, ഹേമകണ്ഠി hemakanthi, മുറികൂട്ടിപ്പച്ച murikootipacha
- Marathi
- मद्राशी काटे माका madrashi kate maka
Botanical family
Acanthaceae
Acanthus family
Creeping Blepharis belongs to the Acanthaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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